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By: Theresa Kuchler
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There is more than just coffee in the meeting café in the former “Anderl” in Peiting.
Gabi Sanktjohanser (l.) and Erika Schönenborn (r.) from the Asylum Helpers' Circle look after the social meeting place in the town center.
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The meeting café of the Asylum Helpers' Circle in Peitingen's “Anderl” opened around nine months ago.
The café has now become a popular meeting place.
Peiting – The humming coffee machine repeatedly drowns out the murmurs of the guests.
In the narrow dining room of the meeting café, which moved with the Peitinger Tafel into the former café “Anderl” nine months ago, a wide variety of people sit close together.
A group of Ukrainian women chat next to young men who live in the asylum accommodation on Seestrasse, while further ahead the guests from Peiting and Schongau sip their cappuccinos.
The room, which looks really cozy with friendly green tones, warm lights and decorations on the tables, is well filled this afternoon.
Nine months after opening in the “Anderl”: the meeting café in Peiting has become a social space for everyone
Gabi Sanktjohanser admits that it's not usually that busy when the café opens its door three times a week.
The integration companion of the asylum helper group, Erika Schönenborn, looks after the meeting café in Peiting.
But it is always well received, says Sanktjohanser - and not just by café guests, who can afford a coffee and a piece of cake there even on a tight budget because of the donation-based prices.
The room has developed into a social meeting place that is used in a variety of ways.
“The café should be accessible to everyone,” explains Erika Schönenborn.
The only requirement: “It must not be for commercial purposes.”
Various groups use the meeting café as a meeting point in Peiting
Clubs, VHS courses and local groups now share the café in the center of Peiting, and there is something different on offer almost every day.
On Wednesdays, for example, the meeting café becomes the workshop for a handicraft course, where you can knit, crochet or simply ratchet together.
On Thursday the card players meet to practice Schafkopfen with Peiting's second mayor Gunnar Prielmeier, and on Fridays a guitar course takes place in the room.
“The widows have already asked,” says Gabi Sanktjohanser.
In her opinion, the fact that the meeting café is used in so many different ways is also due to the fact that there are hardly any alternative spaces in Peiting.
Especially since the “S'Zuckerl” café closed.
“There’s just something missing,” says Sanktjohanser.
The meeting café closes this gap - and quite easily.
“If you want to use the room, you get the key.
And whoever drinks something, throws a donation into the drinks fund.”
The community pays the rent for the café – “Does a lot for social peace”
In addition to the social offerings, the meeting café is also an important contact point for anyone who needs support.
There are advisory services such as integration advice and homeless assistance several times a week, which, according to Sanktjohanser, are “very well received”.
The German courses that volunteers give to asylum seekers and refugees are also well attended.
There are currently twelve students learning German in different groups at the meeting café, explains Erika Schönenborn.
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However, the original idea that Tafel customers would sit down for a coffee in the café after shopping did not take hold.
“The Tafel customers don’t want to stay any longer,” says Sanktjohanser.
That quickly became clear.
“Most people want to quickly store their purchases and then go home.”
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Schönenborn and Sanktjohanser are pleased that the new Peitingen meeting café has become a popular place for a wide variety of groups of people after just a few months.
However, they also make it clear that the offer could not exist without the support of the community, which pays the rent.
“That is not a given,” says Sanktjohanser.
“The community is already doing a lot for social peace.”
Helpers wanted:
The meeting café in Peiting is looking for support.
Anyone who would like to volunteer can contact us by email at peiting@asylimoberland.de.
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